The sacking of Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour on 18 April after he complained in parliament that diplomats hadn't been paid for seven months points to the depth of the economic crisis facing the regime as well as its internal divisions...

A senior official from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's office called Sudan's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour on 11 July when Washington announced its decision to assure him that the US engagement strategy would continue Africa Confidential understands and to explain the reasons for the deferral...